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A Catalyst article explaining how scientists with qualifications in ecology and environmental science play an increasingly important role in assessing the human impact on the Earth. Ecology is the branch of biology that looks at how organisms, plants and animals, depend on each other and their surroundings. It also...
Catalyst Magazine is a science journal for young people aged 14-19 and their educators. It brings STEM subjects to life with insights into cutting-edge scientific research and industry R&D exploring the practical applications of complex science in the world around us. Catalyst magazine is a digital only...
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This article follows the journey of the space probes "Huygens" and "Cassini", sent to explore Titan, a moon of Saturn. After a seven year journey it was...
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Hair can be cut and sculpted into the latest fashionable shapes and can hold fast to all the colours of the rainbow. This article explores how hair grows and how...
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Microwaves, infrared, ultraviolet and X-rays are all electromagnetic waves. Some are used to create medical images and others to treat disease. How the...
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Fruit Flies and Alzheimer's Disease
This article looks at some basic aspects of genetics and how fruit flies are being used in novel ways to study genetic diseases....
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By the end of 2007, physicists working at Europe’s Large Hadron Collider hope to have received the first results from what is probably the...
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To tackle climate change, one potential major energy resource has remained untapped until now: wave power.
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This article describes body sensor networks which are tiny electronic sensors used to monitor the movement of patients, athletes and game players.
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This article describes how insects are used to provide clues at crime scenes.
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In the Pink: Colour from Carotenes
This article explains how pigments pass along a food chain through a process called bioamplification.
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Water Power: the Micro-Hydro Revolution
The article looks at a micro-hydroelectric power station on a river in Yorkshire.
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A special edition of Catalyst focusing on the work of Charles Darwin including articles on:
This article provides an interesting outline of the life and work of Charles Darwin.
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This article investigates whether adding iron to the oceans could reduce global warming.
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Money, Mistakes and the Birth of a Science
Looking at how the laying of telegraph cables across the ocean bed has led to the science of oceanography.
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